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CONTENTS. 



PREFACE 11 

HISTORY — Origin and Early Struggles .... 15 

An Era of Progress 36 

The New University . . . . . . . 46 

Commencement and Early Societies .... 50 

fresent Conditions 59 

Presidents, The 61 

Professors, Distinguished 68 

Graduates, Distinguished . . .82, 86, 96, 105, 110, 116 

WOMEN'S COLLEGE 73. 

ADVERTISERS' INDEX 123 

ILLUSTRATIONS— Andrews, President .... 8 

Brown, Nicholas 10 

Presidents 1765-1889 12 

Providence, 1809 1-t 

University Hall 17 

Hope College 18 

Manning Hall 19 

Manning Hall, Interior 20 

Eront Campus 21 

University Grammar School 22 

Rhode Island Hall 23 

Chemical Laboratory 24 

Chemical Laboratory, Interior 25 

President's House 26 

View from Frout Campus 27 

College Hill 27 

Library 28 

Library Interior ........ 29 

Slater Hall 32 



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Sayles Memorial Hall 34 

Sayles Memorial Hall, Interior ..... 35 

Harkness, Albert Classical Seminary, Sayles Hall . 36 

Sayles Memorial Hall, Interior 37 

German Seminary 38 

Wilson Hall 39 

Psychological Laboratory, Wilson Hall ... 40 

Physical Laboratory, Wilson Hall 41 

Electrical Power Room, Wilson Hall . ■ . . 41 

Middle Campus from Waterman Street ... 42 

Lyman Gymnasium ........ 43 

Lyman Gymnasium, Interior ...... 44 

Machine Shop 45 

Machine Shop, Interior ....... 46 

Maxcy Hall 47 

Botanical Laboratory ....... 4S 

Lacld Observatory 49 

Ladd Observatory, Interior ...... 50 

Student's Room 51 

Student's Room 52 

Student's Room 53 

Psi Upsilon Chapter House 54 

First Baptist Church ....... 55 

First Baptist Church, Interior 56 

Rhode Island Historical Building 57 

Early Society Emblems ...... 58 

Front Campus 65 

New Recitation Hall, Women's College ... 74 

Old Recitation Hall, Women's College .... 75 

College Hill, Down 107 



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PROVIDENCE, 1809 



HISTORY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY. 

ORIGIN AND EARLY STRUGGLES. 

*1\ T the middle of the eighteenth century religious controversy still ran high in the 
Y\ American colonies. Though six colleges had been founded, they were all under 
V^ strict sectarian control, and none freely welcomed to its halls students who repre- 
sented the less influential denominations like the Baptists and the Quakers. As the 
increase in their membership served to make this evil more and more keenly felt by the 
Baptists of America, it was resolved by the Philadelphia Association to erect " on some 
suitable part of this continent a college or university which should be principally under 
the direction and government of the Baptists." The colleges already existing, Harvard 
in Massachusetts, William and Mary in Virginia, Yale in Connecticut, the University of 
Pennsylvania, King's (afterwards Columbia) College in New York, and the College of 
New Jersey, left unprovided with institutions of higher learning the seven colonies of 
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and 
Georgia. Among these the choice would naturally fall upon Rhode Island, which 
possessed in the maritime city of Newport a centre of wealth and culture, and which, 
moreover, was a colony historically associated with Baptist principles, since it had 



been founded by Roger Williams. Its legislature was still controlled by the Baptists, and 
its freedom- loving citizens were likely to welcome a project to found a new institution 
which should be denominational without being restrictive. 

Ever since the residence of the great Bishop Berkeley in the colon}- thirty years before, 
men's minds had been familiar with the idea of establishing a college in Rhode Island, 
and therefore the agents of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, who visited Newport in 
1763 on their educational mission, were hospitably received, and in February 1764 a 
charter was granted for the new institution, which was known in the beginning as Rhode 
Island College. The first steps in the movement had been taken by Rev. Morgan Edwards, 
a native of Wales, who, later in 1767, obtained funds for the college in England and 
Ireland. It is doubtful, however, if the enterprise could have succeeded without the 
devotion and enthusiastic labors of James Manning, the first president of the college. 
The charter obtained was a model of breadth and liberality. While it gave a nominal con- 
trol to the Baptists, it prevented sectarianism by a large representation of other denomina- 
tions in the governing body. The Trustees were made thirty-six in number, twenty-two 
of whom must be Baptists, five Quakers, four Congregationalists, and five Episcopalians. 
The Fellows, who formed the other branch of the corporation, were twelve, of whom 
eight, including the president, must be Baptists, no restriction being placed on the other 
members. Thus, the important positions of chancellor, secretary, and treasurer are open 




UNIVERSITY HALL. 




HOPE COLLEGE. 
18 




MANNING HALL. 



to members of any denomination. The corporation was made self-perpetuating, but, since 
1874, vacancies in the board of Trustees have been filled from nominations made by 
the alumni. 

The first step had thus been taken, but the college at the start possessed neither 
funds, buildings nor students. It 
was therefore necessary that the 
president should support himself 
by preaching while the institution 
was getting under way. In the 
town of Warren, ten miles south 
of Providence, a Baptist church 
was about to be established ; 
Manning was called to be its pas- 
tor, and thus his means of personal 
support were provided. In April 
1764 he settled in Warren, and 
at once opened a grammar school 
as a preliminary to college instruc- 
tion. This school, now called the 




INTERIOR OF 



ING HALL 




FRONT CAMPUS. 



University Grammar School, still continues its work as a feeder to the university, 
in Providence the building which was erected tor its use in 1810. In 1765 
was formally elected president, and the first student was matriculated. In the 



David Howell was appointed tutor 
It may not be amiss to note that the 
honorary degrees conferred upon 
this occasion numbered twenty- 
two. Of the first graduating class, 
William Rogers became a brigade 
chaplain in the Continental army, 
and afterwards professor of oratory 
in the University of Pennsylvania ; 
Richard Stites, a captain in the 
Continental army; Charles Thomp- 
son, a Baptist clergyman and chap- 
lain in the Continental army; [ames 
M. Varnum, a brigadier general in 
the Continental army, member of 
Congress, and judge of the North- 



occupying 
, Manning 
next year 
In [769 the first class of seven students was graduated. 




UNIVERSITY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 




RHODE ISLAND HALL. 




CHEMICAL LABORATORY. 



west Territory ; William Williams, a prominent Baptist clergyman. Thus the new college 
justified its establishment. 

The exercises of the first Commencement had attracted attention throughout the state, 
and when the question arose of fixing the site of the college by the erection of a build- 
ing, the four counties of the state 
contested for the honor. Provi- 
dence raised ,£4,280 besides offer- 
ing what was regarded as superior 
advantages, and was accordingly 
chosen to be the seat of the college. 
Early in 1770 the transfer was 
made, and the foundations of the 
first college building, the present 
University Hall, were laid, John 
Brown, afterwards leader of the 
Gaspee expedition, placing the 
corner-stone. The building was 
modelled after "Nassau Hall" at 
Princeton, of which institution both 




INTERIOR CHEMICAL LABORATORY. 




PRESIDENT'S HOUSE. 





ISO 





LI BRARY. 




INTERIOR LIBRARY. 



Manning and Howell were graduates. A house for the president was built on the grounds 
at the same time, the cost of the two buildings being about $10,000. But the college was 
not destined to be uninterruptedly a scene of studious pursuits ; for during the Revolution 
the building was occupied over five years by the American and French troops as a 
barrack and hospital. It was not until 1782 that the exercises were again resumed, but 
from this date the history of the institution has continued unbroken. Nine years later 
President Manning died, having lived to see a class of twenty-two graduated from the 
institution of which he was the founder and for a quarter of a century had been the 
controlling spirit. Much had been accomplished in that time. One hundred and forty- 
nine students had been sent into the world to represent the training given at Rhode 
Island College. Funds had been raised abroad and in the southern states, anil the col- 
lege had been successfully carried over the chasm of the Revolutionary war. The faculty 
had been increased to five professors and two tutors. Moreover, the personal distinction 
of Manning during his service as a member of the Congress of the Confederation had 
brought the college into favorable notice throughout the country. The social life of the 
college was more democratic at first than that of some of the older American institutions, 
where, as at Harvard, for instance, the names of the students in the catalogue were 
arranged, not alphabetically, but according to social rank. Vet a strict paternal discipline 
was exercised over the students, the professors and tutors living under the same roof with 



them, and making daily visits of inspection to their rooms. Even corporal punishment 
was inflicted by the president in extreme cases. Upperclassmen were expected to assist 
in the discipline and moral training of underclassmen. Latin, moreover, was the language 
prescribed to be spoken in the halls and on the grounds during study hours. As a 
compensation for this rigid discipline, the student had the satisfaction of figuring as a 
more important personage in the eyes of the world, and of finding his diploma a readier 
passport to employment and distinction than is the experience of the far more broadly 
educated graduate of to-day. 

President Manning's successor was Jonathan Maxcy, a graduate in the class of 1787, 
who was only twenty-four years old at the time of his election. During the last year of 
his administration a class numbering twenty-eight was graduated. He resigned in 
1802. A longer term of service, covering a period of twenty-four years, was filled by the 
third president of the college, Asa Messer. Like Maxcy he was a graduate of the col- 
lege, and he had served the institution as tutor and professor. His administration was 
marked by a notable expansion of the college in its buildings, in its student attendance, 
and in the number of its faculty. The Grammar School Building was erected in 18 10, at 
a cost of $1,450, and in 1822 Nicholas Brown built Hope College at his own expense, 
the estimated cost being $20,000. This generous benefactor had in 1792 contributed 
$500 for the Library, and in 1804 had endowed a professorship of Oratory and Belles- 




SLATER HALL. 




MIODLE CAMPUS FROM GEORGE STREET. 
33 




SAYLE3 MEMORI 




JTERIOR SAYLES MEMORIAL HALL. 



Lettres. At the last date the name of the institution was changed in his honor to Brown 
University. The benefactions of Mr. Brown were continued throughout his life and 
amounted in all to $200,000. In 1825 a class of forty-seven students was graduated, the 
faculty in that year numbering nine professors and two tutors. During President Messer's 
administration a Medical School was established, which was in existence from 1811 until 
1S2S, its regular graduates num- 
bering eighty-seven, of whom the 
last survivor, Dr. Francis Levison 
Wheaton, of Providence, died 
December 26, 1895. 

AN ERA OF PROGRESS. 

With the accession of President 
Wayland in 1827 an era of progress 
opened for the university. The 
new administrator lost no time in 
entering upon the most radical 
reforms, although the entire re- 
organization of the university was 




not accomplished for many years. The result of these changes was the so-called " New 
System," which represents Dr. Wayland's strength and originality as a university organizer. 
Its basic element was the full acceptance of the elective idea. In Dr. Wayland's own 
words, "The various courses should be so arranged that in so far as it is practicable every 
student might study what he chose, all that he chose, and nothing but what he chose." 

The bachelor's degree was given 
for a three years' course, while four 
years sufficed for the degree of 
Master of Arts. Students were 
encouraged to remain longer than 
four years at college, while they 
were freely admitted to special 
courses contemplating a shorter 
residence than three years. The 
study of the sciences was extended 
and emphasized. These ideas, even 
in detail, will be seen to accord 
with some of the most advanced 
views of contemporary educators. 




The system was not put into full operation until 1850, and even then it was so far in 
advance of general educational opinion that after five years its most revolutionary 
features were dropped. During his administration President Wayland enlarged the 
material resources of the institution by increasing the college endowment from about 
$30,000 to $200,000, and secured three important buildings. Of these. Manning Hall 
was given by Nicholas Brown in 
1S34. Its cost was $18,500. It 
is an exact model of the temple 
of Artemis Propylsea in Eleusis, 
but twice the size of the original. 
Rhode Island Hall was erected 
in 1S40 at a cost of §30,000, and 
the President's House, the gilt of 
Nicholas brown, was built in the 
same year, the cost being $7,000. 
Dr. Wayland resigned the presi- 
dency in 1855. 

The administration of the fifth 
president, Barnas Sears, covered 





WILSON HALL. 



the years from 1855 to 1867. This period included the financial crisis of 1857, and 
the Civil War. Yet large additions were made to the endowment, and the class which 
entered in 1S66 numbered seventy-three. During the Rebellion three hundred Brown 
men, students and graduates, entered the army, of whom twenty-one laid clown their 
lives for their country. President Sears established a system ot scholarships, and 
collected over $220,000 in sub- 
scriptions. In [862 the present 
Chemical Laboratory was built, 
at an expense of $1 5,000. In 1S67 
Dr. Sears resigned his position to 
become secretary of the Peabody 
Education Fund. Alexis Caswell, 
who had been professor from 1828 
to 1863, was chosen president in 
1868 and served four years and 
a half. He organized new depart- 
ments of instruction, and increased 
the endowment to a sum exceed- 
ing 8550,000. In 1872 Ezekiel 





IDDLE CAMPUS FROM WATERMAN STREET 




LYMAN GYMNASIUM. 




INTERIOR LYMAN GYMNASIUM. 



Gilman Robinson became president, remaining in office until 1889. Dr. 
clearly saw the great opportunity existing at Brown for the upbuilding of 
university, and throughout his administration 
steadily labored to further this design. He 
attracted an increased number of students, 
and inspired them with the ardor of his own 
moral and intellectual enthusiasm. Dr. Robin- 
son was eminently successful in advancing the 
material growth of the university. The endow- 
ment was increased to nearly a million dollars, 
while several important buildings were erected. 
The beautiful Library, built in 1878, was the 
gift of John Carter Brown. Slater Hall was 
erected in 1879 D >' Horatio Nelson Slater, 
Senior, at a cost of $30,000. Sayles Memorial 
Hall, the gilt of William Francis Sayles, cost- 
ing $100,000, was built in 1S81. University 
Hall was renovated in 1883 at a cost of 
$50,000. 



Robinson 
a modern 




THE NEW UNIVERSITY. 

The eighth president of the institution and the virtual ere 
sity is Elisha Benjamin Andrews, who entered upon his office 
to characterize in brief space the 
changes w r o u g h t u n d e r hi s 
vigorous management. The range 
of studies has been widened until 
from the sixteen departments 
existing in i SSg the number has 
been increased to twenty- five. 
The faculty, meanwhile, has 
grown from twenty-two to eighty 
members; while the students 
have increased from 268 to 908. 
The endowment has been brought 
up to $1,100,000, but the income 
has barely sufficed to meet the 
wants of the new departments 
and the increased demands of 



itor 
in 



of the 
1SS9. 



new 
't is 



Univer- 
difficult 












MAXCY HALL. 



the old departments under the greatly enlarged attendance. Sever, 
ings have been added during Dr. Andrews' administration. Wilson 
3 from the fund ol $ >,ooo bequeathed by George Francis \\ 
Obse ■ \en by Ex-Gover- 

nor Herbert W. Ladd in the 
same year, cost about $ 
The same year saw the election 
of the Lyman Gymnasium 

which was named in 
honor of Daniel Wanton Lyman, 
the principal donor. Maxcy Hall 
was built in 1805 at - l cos ' ° 
>o; and the Women's Col- 
lege, costing $35,000, was 
structed in 1S07. The last 
named edifice is tor the accomo- 
dation oi that department 
the university which was organ- 
ized in 1892 to supply the needs 



ll illl] 


tortant build- 


Hall 


was built in 


ilson. 


1 he Ladd 




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of such woman students as should choose to take advantage of the action of the 
trustees in opening all examinations, degrees and graduate courses to women. Other 
buildings controlled by the university, are the Messer, Brown Street, Pease, and 
Howell Houses, which are used as 
dormitories. It should be added that 
the growth of the last eight years 
has not been merely quantitative, 
but the present intellectual, moral 
and spiritual standards of the Univer- 
sity can challenge comparison with 
those of any previous time. 

COMMENCEMENT AND EARLY 
SOCIETIES. 

The collegiate year covers about 
thirty-six weeks, and is at present 
divided into three terms. The fall 
term opens on the third Wednesday 
in September ; the Christmas recess 




and the spring recess divide the second term from the other two, while the year 
closes with Commencement day on the third Wednesday in June. The number of 
terms has varied at different times, but the greatest change that has been made in the 
college calendar is the transfer 
of Commencement from the 
beginning of the first term in 
September to the close of the 
third term in June, thus turning 
the word into a misnomer. 
This change was made in 1870. 
Commencement in the early 
days was a great civic festivity, 
and brought hundreds of sight- 
seers to the city from all over 
the state. Previous to 1829, 
there were literary exercises 
both morning and afternoon. 
For about sixty years the Com- 
mencement dinner, held at the 




close of the exercises in the church, has been an 
one time the dinner was served in a large tent on 
oi Sayles Memorial llall. this beautiful room, hung 
men of the university, has been 
employed tor this purpose. In 
former days the necrology oi 
the year was read after the 
dinner, when different speakers 
would testify to the worth or 
indulge in reminiscenses oi the 
deceased. Hut this practice was 
soon felt to ho unsuited to the 
festal character oi the occasion, 
and tor fni\ years the annual 
necrology of the university has 
been published in the Provi- 
• youmai on the morning 
ot Commencement. The dinner 
ot thr present daj is followed 



imp 


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aturi 


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the day. At 


the 


campus, 


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since 


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eparted great 




by speeches largely digestive in their character, and happy hits are applauded to the 
echo. The guests, being mostly alumni, are seated by classes, and good-fellowship is 
the rule of the hour. A ball-game follows the dinner, and the President's reception 
in the evening closes the day 
and the academic year. Since 
1894 the Gaston prize medal 
awarded annually to the member 
of the graduating class " who 
shall write and at Commence- 
ment pronounce the best 
oration," has lent a new interest 
to the literary features of the 
day. But it must be confessed 
that the enthusiasm of the 
student body centers round the 
exercises of Class Day, which 
have succeeded to the display 
and popularity of the old-time 
Commencement. The more for- 





PSI UPSILON CHAPTER HOUSE. 




INTERIOR FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 




HISTORICAL I 
57 



UILDING 



mal oration and poem in Sayles Hall in the morning, 
the exercises on the campus in the afternoon, and the 
illumination and "spreads" of the evening arc under the 
students' own management, and never fail of hearty 
appreciation on the part of the public. The various recep 
tions of the evening are under the direction of the differ- 
ent secret societies, which at the present time are twelve 

in number. 



■ 




These societies are the 
descendants or successors 
of a group of literary and 
debating societies which 

flourished in the early days of the college, and bore no 
small part in the training of the students in speaking and 
writing. The first of these societies was the Philermenian, 
founded in 1794. "for the promotion of social intercourse, 
and for improvement in forensic discussion." A small 
library was formed, and the membership, at first twenty, 
was subsequently enlarged to forty-five. As even the 



latter number shut out from membership more than half of the students, a new society 
of similar aims was formed in 1806, which was called the "United Brothers." The 
members of the older society inclined politically to the views of the Federal party, 
the United Brothers to the Republican party. In 1824 a third organization, the 
Franklin Society, was established, which remained in existence ten years. In 1849 the 
books of the two society libraries amounted to some 6,000 volumes. The Rhode 
Island Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa was established at Brown in 1830. The first 
Greek letter fraternity of the modern type, the Alpha Delta Phi, was founded in the 
same year. To the introduction of intercollegiate societies is due the disbandment of 
the older organizations, which finally occured just before the outbreak of the Civil 
War. But there can be no doubt that the Philermenian and the United Brothers 
rendered a service to the literary life and reputation of the college which their more 
popular rivals have never replaced. 

PRESENT CONDITIONS. 

The grounds of the institution include about ten acres, which is one-third of the 
real estate owned by the university. The buildings, which have already been mentioned, 
are fifteen in number. University and Maxcy Halls are used chiefly as dormitories, 
and Hope College and Slater Hall are devoted entirely to this purpose. Rhode Island 



College contains the natur.il history museums and laboratories, Manning I lall contains 
the museum oi Archaeology, University llall contains the offices oi the President, the 
Registrar, the Steward, and the English department, the editorial rooms ol the student 
publications, the College Hook Store, the Scars Reading Room, and, i^\^ the upper floor, 
the drawing rooms oi the department oi Mechanical Engineering, llu- laboratory oi 
the last named department is situated in the basement oi Sayles llall. I he mechanical 
workshops occupy a building in the rear oi the Chemical Laboratory. Wilson Hall is 
devoted to the work oi the department oi Physics, certain rooms being set apart Eor 
the Psychological Laboratory. 1 he entire basement ol Ma\c\ llall is given up to the 
Botanical department, where is kept the famous Olnev Herbarium. In the same build- 
ing arc the rooms ol the department ot Social and Political Science and the room 
of the Greek department. The I add Observatorj is situated a mile trom the univer- 
sity. It is supplied with a twelve-inch telescope and other necessary apparatus, and 
furnishes constant time-signals to the Rhode Island Electric Protective Company. I he 
Gymnasium occupies its own well-equipped building, in which exercise is required oi 
every student trom November until April. 

The libraries ot the university include the main library ami the special department 
libraries. I he total number ot volumes is over 00,000. The main library building 
contains, besides the general working library ot the university, the Harris Collection of 



American Poetry, the Metcalf Collection of bound pamphlets, and the Olney Botanical 

Collection. In addition to the general library fund, there are special funds for history 
and botany. The most important department library is that ol the Conanl German 
Seminary, which numbers over 6,600 volumes, The Harkness Classical Seminary eon- 
tains a collection of 1,500 volumes; and important working libraries are connected 
with the departments of English, Romance Languages, Chemistry, Physics, Botany, 
Comparative Anatomy, Drawing, and Astronomy. The valuable collections represented 
by the Providence Public Library, the Providence Athenaeum, the Rhode Island 
Historical Society, the State- Law Library, and the library of the Rhode Island Medical 
Society, amounting to more than 150,000 volumes, are also at. the service of the student. 
'1 he Graduate Students' Association and the clubs formed by the student- of the 
various departments are important adjuncts to collegiate work. About one hun- 
dred scholarships are at the disposal of the university for the assistance of deserv- 
ing students. '1 he fellowship of the Grand Army of the Republic has already been 
established, and that of the Philadelphia Alumni Association will soon be available. 

THE PRESIDENTS. 

James Manning, D, D., 1765-1791, was born in Elizabethtown, N. [., October 22, 
1738. He was fitted for college at Hopewell Academy, and was graduated from the 



College oi Now Jersey in 1762. Immediately after graduation he entered upon his life 
work as preacher, teacher, and organizer of Rhode Island College. He represented 
Rhode Island in the Congress oi the Confederation, and upon his return to Rhode Island 
pleaded with voice and pen the cause oi the new constitution, the adoption oi which 
by the state, he was largely instrumental in securing, lie died oi apoplexy July 24, 
1701. Dr. Manning was an orator of commanding presence, with a voice of great 
compass ami sweetness. His lite ami achievements have been worthilj set forth In 
Reuben A. Guild, 1.1.. D., librarian-emeritus oi Brown University, in his "lite, limes ami 
Correspondence oi lames Manning," as also in his more recent volume, " Early History 
of Brown University." 

|ona in w Maxcy, IX 1 )., 1 792-1802, was horn in Attleboro, Mass.. September 2, 1 70S. I le 
studied at Wrcntham Academy, and was graduated at Rhode Island College in 1787. 
lie served as tutor 1787—91, and as librarian [7S8-92. lie was ordained to the Bap- 
tist ministry in 1701. ami was pastor of the First Church in Providence 1791-92. lie 
served the college as acting president 1 70J-07, ami as president [797— 1802. lie was 
president of Union College 1802-04, ana< "' South Carolina College [804-20. He 
was the author ot various sermons, addresses and orations, lie was a man of slight 
figure, hut a brilliant orator and a successful teacher. He died June 4, [820. No por- 
trait ot Dr. Maxcy is known to exist. 



Asa Messer, D. D., LL. D., 1802-1826, was born in Methuen, Mass., in 1769, and was 
a graduate of the college in the class of 1790. He was tutor 1791-96, librarian 
1792-99, professor of learned languages 1796-99, of mathematics and natural philosophy 
1 799-1802. He served as acting president 1802-04, and as president 1804-26. In 1801 
he was ordained to the Baptist ministry. Upon his resignation he retired to his farm 
in the neighborhood of Providence and subsequently he held various important town 
offices. He died October 11, 1836. 

Francis Wayland, D. D., LL. D., 1827-55, was born in New York City, March 11, 
1796. He entered Union College at the age of fifteen, and was graduated in 1813. 
He studied medicine for three years, but feeling called to the ministry, he entered 
Andover Theological Seminary, where he remained one year, 18 16-17. He served as 
tutor in Union College 1817-21. In the latter year he was ordained, and served as 
pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston 1821-26. In this position he preached 
his famous sermon on "The Moral Dignity of the Missionary Enterprise." In 1826 
he was called to the professorship of natural philosophy in Union College, but held 
the position only a few months, since he entered upon his duties as president of 
Brown University in February, 1827. Dr. Wayland's greatness as an educator lives 
in the impress which he left upon the university, and in the loyal testimony of his 
surviving pupils. His ability as a writer and thinker', and his services as a champion 



oi missions may be judged from the enduring monument oi his published works. As 
a disv-ipliiKiri.nl he erred in the direction oi strictness, but his influence upon the 
students was large and inspiring, both intellectually and morally. He resigned the 
presidency in 1855, and devoted the remaining ten years oi his life to religious work 
and authorship. For over a year, 1857-1858, he served as pastor of the First Baptist 
church in Providence. He died September 30, 1865. 

Barnas Si \ks, D. D., 1 1 . IV, [855 67, was born in Sandisfield, Mass., November 
19, 1802. He was graduated from Brown University in 1825, .\n<.\ from Newton ideological 
Institution in [828. He was ordained in [827, and served as pastor oi the hirst Bap 
tist Church in Hartford, [827-1829. He was professor oi languages in Hamilton I'ln-o 
logical Institution [829 36, but spent the years 1833—35 as ,l student of theology in 
Germany. From 1836 to [848 he hold the position of president and professor oi 
Christian theology in Newton rheological Institution. In 1848 he succeeded Horace 
Mann as secretarj oi the Massachusetts hoard oi education, and in [855 he was 
called to the presidencj of Brown University. He was secretarj oi the Peabody 
Education Fund 1867—80, and in this position created the modern educational system of 
the South. Dr. Sears was the translator of several German works, and wrote a 
life oi Luther. He was an accomplished classical and German scholar, ^\n^\ a man oi 
distinguished and winning personality. He died July 6, [880. 




IDDLE CAMPUS. 



Alexis Caswell, D. D., LL. D., 1868-72, was born in Taunton, Mass., January 29, 
1799, and was graduated from Brown University at the head of his class in 1S22. 
He was tutor in Columbian College 1822-25, and professor of ancient languages in the 
same institution 1 82 5-2 7. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in the latter 
year, and served as pastor in Halifax, N. S., 1827-28. In 182S he served for a 
short time as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Providence, and in the same 
year was elected professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Brown Univer- 
sity. He taught mathematics and astronomy 1850-63, and was president 1868-72, 
having previously served as acting president 1840-41. Dr. Caswell was one of the 
founders of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and also of 
the National Academy of Sciences. He died January 8, 1877. 

Ezekiel Gilman Robinson, D. D., LL. D., 1872-89, was born in Attleboro, Mass., 
March 23, 1815. He was graduated from Brown University in [S38, and from Newton 
Theological Institution in 1842. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in the latter 
year. He served as pastor in Norfolk, \*a„ 1842-45, and in Cambridge, Mass., 1845- 
46. From 1846 to 1849 he was professor of Hebrew in Covington Theological Insti- 
tution. He served as pastor of the Ninth Street Church in Cincinnati 1849-52, and 
as professor of Christian Theology in Rochester Theological Seminary 1852-60. He 
was president of the latter institution 1860-72, and of Brown University 1872-89. 
After his resignation from Brown he lectured on preaching at Yale, and on apologetics 



at Crozer. He was professor of ethics and apologetics in the University of Chicago 
1892-94. He edited the Christian Review 1859-64, and was the author of several 
theological works. Dr. Robinson died June 13, 1894. 

Elisha Benjamin Andrews, D. D., LL. D., 1889 — , was born in Hinsdale, N. H., 



January 10, 1844. He 
1861-64, attaining the rank 
graduated from Brown Uni- 
as principal of the Conn- 
1870-72, was graduated 
Institution in 1874, and was 
He was pastor of the First 
Mass., 1874-75, an d presi-' 
1875-79. He was professor 
theology at Newton 1879- 
economics in Berlin and 
fessor of history and political 



Mm 




served in the Union army 
of second lieutenant. He was 
versity in 1870. He served 
ecticut Literary Institution 
from Newton Theological 
ordained in the same year. 
Baptist Church in Beverly, 
dent of Denison University 
of homiletics and pastoral 
82. He studied history and 
Munich 1882-83, was pro- 
economy in Brown Univer- 



sity 1882-88, and professor of political economy and finance in Cornell University 
1888-89. He has been president of Brown University since 1889. Dr. Andrews served 
as United States Commissioner to the International Monetary Conference at Brussels 
1892. He is the author of numerous well-known works on history and economics. 



DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS. 

Hon. David Howell, LL. D., was bom in New Jersey, January i, 1747. He was 
graduated at the college of New Jersey in 1766. and became tutor in Rhode Island 
College in the same year. From 1769 to 1779 he was professor of mathematics and 
natural philosophy, teaching also Hebrew and French. In 1773 he was chosen a Fellow 
in the Corporation, a position which he held for over half a century. He took up the pro- 
fession of law and rose to distinction. Under the Confederation he served as a member of 
Congress, and was subsecpiently associate justice of the Rhode Island supreme court, attor- 
ney general of the state, anil United States boundary commissioner. He was secretarv of 
the corporation of the College 1780-1806, professor of jurisprudence 1790- 1824 and act- 
ing president 1791-92. He was United States judge for the Rhode Island district 1812-24. 
He was a man of great talent, wit and learning. Judge Howell died July 21, 1824. 

Hon. Tristam Burges, LL. I)., was born in Rochester, Mass., February 26, 1770. 
He was graduated at Rhode Island College in 1796, and was admitted to the bar 
three years later. He was a member of the Rhode Island general assembly in 181 1, 
and served as chief justice of the Rhode Island supreme court 18 15-16. He was 
professor of oratory and belles-lettres in Drown University 1815-28, and trustee- 1813- 
53. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States 1825-35. 
In this position he soon won distinction, for logic and merciless invective. His orations still 



rank among the masterpieces of American oratory. After his retirement from public life 
he resided in Seekonk, Mass., now East Providence, R. I., where he died October 

13, T853. 

George Ide Chace, Ph. D., LL. D., was born in Lancaster, Mass., February 19, 1808. 
He was graduated at Brown University in 1830. He served as principal of the 
Classical Institute at Waterville, Me., one year, and as tutor in Brown University two 
years. He was adjunct professor of Mathematics 1833-34, professor of chemistry 1834- 
67, teaching also geology and physiology, and professor of intellectual and moral philosophy 
1867-72. He was acting president 1867-68. He also occupied several important civic 
positions. Professor Chace was not only an eminent scientist and an original thinker, but 
he was also a teacher endowed with a rare power of imparting knowledge and of inspir- 
ing enthusiasm. His "Lectures and Essays," edited by James O. Murray, D. D., dean 
of Princeton University, were published in 1886. Professor Chace died April 29, 1885. 

John Larkin Lincoln, LL. D., was born in Boston, Mass., February 23, 18 17. He 
was graduated at Brown University in 1836. He served as tutor in Columbian College 
one year, studied in Newton Theological Institution two years, and was . tutor in 
Brown University 1839-41. He then studied three years in Europe. On his return in 
1844 he was made assistant professor of Latin, and in the next year full professor, a 
position which he held until 1891. He edited selections from Livy in 1847, and Ovid in 



i S S 3 . but his distinction rests upon his edition of Horace, which was first published 
in 185 1. His miscellaneous papers are included in a memorial volume published in 
1894. He was not only the inspiring teacher, but the personal friend as well of every 
student who came under his instruction. Professor Lincoln died October 17, 1S91. 

Samuel Stillman Greene, LL. D., was born in Belchertown, Mass., May 3, 1810. 
He was graduated at brown University in 1S37, ami at once entered upon a career 
which brought him into intimate connection with popular education. He taught in 
Worcester Academy 1 S3 7-40, was superintendent of schools in Springfield, Mass., 1840- 
42, teacher in the Boston English High School 1842-44, master of the Phillips Grammar 
School, Boston, 1844-49, agent of the Massachusetts board of education 1849-51, and 
superintendent of schools in Providence 1851-55. He was professor of pedagogy in 
Brown University 1851-55, and of mathematics and allied sciences 1855-83. He was 
a member of the Providence school committee for nearly twenty years, and served 
as president of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, the American Institute of 
Instruction, and the National Teachers' Association. He was best known as the 
author of several text-books on English Grammar. Professor Greene was a man of 
democratic spirit, and was deeply loved by his many pupils. He died January 24, 1883. 

Albert Harkness, Ph. D., LL. D., was born in Mendon, Mass., October 6, 1822. He 
was graduated at Brown University in 1S42. He taught in the Providence High 



School 1S43-53, and studied in Germany 1853-55. Upon his return he was appointed 
professor of Greek in Brown University, holding the position until 1892, when he 
was made professor emeritus. Professor Harkness has been president of the Ameri- 
can Philological Association, and was one of the founders of the American School of 
Classical Studies at Athens. He is widely known as the author of a series of text- 
books, especially a Latin grammar, first published in 1864, which has passed through 
many editions. Professor Harkness is still actively engaged in philological research. 

Jeremiah Lewis Diman, D. D.. was born in Bristol, R. I., May 1, 1831. He was 
graduated at Brown University in 185 1, studied in Andover Theological Seminary 
1852-54, and in Germany 1854-56. He was ordained in 1856, and was pastor of the 
First Congregational Church in Fall River 1856-60, and of the Harvard Church, Brook- 
line, Mass., 1860-64. He was professor of history and political economy in Brown 
University 1864-81. He lectured at Johns Hopkins University in 1879, an ^ at the 
Lowell Institute in 1880. He was the author of several historical and theological 
works. His " Orations, Essays, and Sermons," were published by Professor J. O. 
Murray in 1S82. Professor Diman had a national reputation as a historical scholar. As 
a teacher and a citizen he was a force constantly working for the promotion of the 
highest culture. He died February 3, 1881. 

Eli Whitnev Blake, LL. D., was born in New Haven, Conn., April 20, 1836. He 



was graduated at Yale College in 1S57. After teaching a year in Unionville, 
Conn., he studied a Year in the Sheffield Scientific School. Later he studied three 
years and a half in Germany. He was acting professor of chemistry and physics in 
the University of Vermont 1866-67, of physics in Columbia College 186S-69, and was 
appointed professor of physics in Cornell University, but preferred to accept a similar 
position in brown University, which he held for twenty-five years, 1S7C-1895. He 
was the virtual creator of the department of physics at brown, anil made many 
important discoveries and inventions, among which may be mentioned contributions 
to the development of the telephone in 1S76 and 1877. Professor Blake was a man 
of natural refinement and liberal culture, unselfish, and unsparing in his labor for 
others. He died October 1, 1895. 



THE WOMEN'S COLLEGE. 

is said that when the first woman who studied at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology applied for admission, there was an animated discussion among the 
powers that be, as to the advisability of such an innovation, but it was finally 
decided that it might be safe to admit her, as she would doubtless be the only woman 
who would ever make such an extraordinary request. No one thought that the 
group of girls who formed the first woman's class in connection with Brown would 
be the last ones to ask for that privilege, but it is doubtful whether the most sanguine friends 
of the new movement imagined that the end of the sixth year would see a Women's 
College of one hundred and fifty-seven members established in connection with the 
University. When the college year of 1891-92 began, one woman was admitted to the 
class rooms of several of the professors, through their courtesy, an innovation to be fol- 
lowed, a fortnight later, by a memorable afternoon session at the University Grammar 
School. The old building has had many experiences in the educational life on the hill, 
but probably in its wildest dreams, it never aspired to the dignity of inaugurating a 
Women's College! 

Yet so it was, and it is a somewhat significant fact that the school, which was really 
the mother of the University, should also in a sense be the mother of the Women's College. 




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On the afternoon of October the first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, six young 
women, representing Providence, Pawtucket and Bristol, met in the upper room of the 
school, and there had their first recitations in the Freshman course. A few weeks later 
the President's office opened its hospitable doors, and finally a more permanent abiding 
place was found at the Normal School, where classes met afternoons for the remainder 
of the year. That first year was 
a memorable one, inspired by 
the enthusiasm of a new under- 
taking, without a doubt of the 
outcome. By a vote of the cor- 
poration in September, eighteen 
hundred and ninety-one, ex- 
aminations had been opened to 
women, but no provision had 
been made for class room in- 
struction, and no action taken 
concerning the conferring of 
degrees. The unerring judge- 
ment of President Andrews saw 




RECITATION HALL, WOMEN'S COLLEGE. 



a way out of the difficulty, and with the courage which is characteristic he shouldered 
the responsibility, enlisted the support of the professors, who, in addition to their regular 
duties at the University, assumed the care of these afternoon classes in the Freshman 
studies, and inaugurated the Women's College. The courage of the President, inspired 
instructors and students alike, and while the day may come when the students of the 
college of the future will look back from their spacious recitation rooms and goodly 
numbers, with pity mingled with amusement, upon this little group, imbibing knowledge 
after a truly peripatetic fashion, it is probable that none of them will ever more 
thoroughly enjoy their work than (.lid these pioneer girls. 

The year's work had its reward the following June in the action of the corporation, 
opening the college degrees to women and admitting them to graduate study on the 
same footing as men. At about the same time Mr. Louis F. Snow was appointed dean, 
and in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the college began its second year 
in the building on Benefit street, which it still occupies, ami with the distinctive name 
of "The Women's College in connection with Brown University." 

On June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the corporation voted to pro- 
vide instruction for undergraduate women as follows, — 

"There is hereby .established a department of the University, to be known as the 
Women's College in Brown University." 



" The President of the University shall be charged with the general direction, 
supervision and government of this College as of other departments of the University." 

"The immediate charge of the college in respect to registration, teaching, govern- 
ment and discipline, shall be devolved, subject to the direction of the President, on 
the Dean of the Women's College, to be elected annually by the Corporation." 

"The instruction in the Women's College shall be given by the professors and instruc- 
tors in Brown University." 

"Brown University examinations shall hereafter be open to women only when they are 
registered in the Women's College or as graduate students." 

Of the class which began in the fall of ninety-one, two received the degree of A. B. 
in |une, ninety-four, and the remaining five, together with six others, in ninety-five. 
Nine were graduated in ninety-six, and twenty-seven are included in the present 
Senior class. 

Surely, the Women's College is very much alive ; all that it needs and asks is room 
in which to expand and develop to its fullest capacity. That it has the elements of 
power, no one who has watched its progress can doubt. It has already established its 
reputation for scholarship, a reputation which the coming years of opportunity cannot 
but see increased rather than diminished. That there is a demand for it, the very 
numbers alone prove. Radcliffe College, after sixteen years, had about two hundred 



and fifty students. The Women's College in its sixth year, already numbers one 
hundred and fifty-seven, and that without any inducements in the way of accomoda- 
tions. The prime consideration, the opportunity to study under scholars of national 
reputation, it had; but the secondary consideration, that of a suitable building and 
equipments for dormitory and recitation purposes was found to be no less essential, 
if the movement so grandly begun, was to go on. From the beginning of the college 
until the winter of ninety-five, President Andrews bore the financial responsibility, 
no less great because, as a matter ol fact, the college was self supporting. In 
January, 1895, a committee of twenty-five ladies, representing different parts of the 
State, was appointed, who began ami are carrying on with enthusiasm an effort to 
build and equip a Women's College, an effort which has not been in vain, as the 
beautiful building on Meeting Street, now nearly completed, bears witness. 

The need for the college is two-fold. There is, first, the girl whose training must 
be a somewhat desultory one, whose social or home duties make it impossible for it to 
be otherwise ; yet for whom the opportunity to study some special line, to broaden 
and enrich life, is priceless. Again, there is the girl for whom the college training 
is not merely a recreation, a luxury, but an absolute necessity, if life is to be anything 
but a hand to hand struggle. College is every year becoming more imperative for 
those who have before them a professional life in any of its branches, and yet 



the training may be out of reach, unless it can be gained right here in the state. 

What will the Women's College do for the women of Rhode Island ? What has 
Brown done for the men of the State during the last one hundred and thirty years 
and a little more? She is proud to-day to enroll among her sons, men of national 
and international reputation. A prophet's glance down the coming years shows the 
names of famous women worthy to rank by the side of their brother alumni. There 
is room for them both, the cultured woman and the cultured man, each bring- 
ing the skilled hand, the trained brain, the cultivated life to bear on the work of the 
world, in such dire need of them both. Not that all the graduates of the Women's 
College are destined to be " famous " in the sense in which we use the word. It is far 
better that it is not so, that many will not be known beyond their own doorsteps and 
little circle of friends. - There, if anywhere, are needed the highest culture, the richest 
thought, that life may be something more than a mere humdrum round. Phillips Brooks 
once beautifully said that the work of each life is to " make it correspond to the ideal 
which God had in mind when he planned it." Is it too much to say that the 
influence of the Women's College on many a life may be to make that thought a 
reality ? 

The question has a bearing on the University life as a whole. The friends of old 
Brown wish that she may be a University in reality as well as in name, and welcome 



whatever will broaden her influence. She has the honor of being" the first among 
the older New England colleges, to open her doors thus broadly to women, and the 
outcome must be to her advantage, as well as to the advantage of those whom she 
so hospitably welcomes. That it will be, the experience of other Universities go to 
prove. Cambridge has its Girton and Newnham already beginning to boast of illus- 



trious scholars. Every year 
universities and colleges admit- 
to their opportunities for the 
and it is greatly to the glory 
front ranks of this movement. 
" a period of growth such as 
the history of our college, an 
inaugurated with President 
invigorated "every depart- 
among the lines of progress which 




adds new names to the list of 
ting women as well as men 
highest and broadest culture, 
of Brown that she is in the 
It has been truly said that 
had never been known in 
h a r d 1 y in any o t h e r, w a s 
Andrews." He has indeed 
ment of University life," and 



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epoch-making" in the history of the University, may rightly he placed the inaugu- 
ration of the Women's College. 



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DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES. 

THE graduates of Brown University number 4646, 
of whom 2 161 are living. The lives of all have 
been succinctly narrated in the " Historical Catalogue 
of Brown University 1 764-1894." In the present 
place it will be possible only to mention a names few 
chosen out of many perhaps equally distinguished. 

William Rogers, D. D., 1769, professor of oratory 
and belles-lettres in the University of Pennsylvania, 
abolitionist and prison reformer. 

Theodore Foster, A. M., 1770, United States 
senator, collector of materials on Rhode Island 
history. 

Nicholas Brown, A. M., 1786, senior partner in 
the mercantile house of Brown & Ives, benefactor 
of Brown University. 

William Hunter, LL. D., 1791, United States 
senator, minister to Brazil. 

Jonathan Russell, LL. D., 1 791, commissioner to 
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Maynard, Peter, (Imperial Shaving Rooms), 

Miller's Hotel, ..... 



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Wallace & Company, 
Williams & Everett, 
Winsor & Newton, Limited; 
Whittaker, N. B., 
Wright, E. A., 



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